Word: sabers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...foils titlists remains, but A1 Labastie, Cranny Jones, and Art Jaros will hold up the Harvard side of things. Epeemen Hal Park and Bill Croach should be among the leading contenders for their division crown, and Tom Wright and Captain Skip Batchelder rate up with the high ranking saber artists...
...SABER: Johnson (Y) defeated Doyle (H), 5-3. Litt (Y) defeated Doyle (H), 5-3, Batchelder (H), 5-3. Batchelder (H) defeated Scully (Y), 5-4, and Johnson (Y), 5-3. Doyle (H) defeated Scully...
...from every angle by 700-odd speakers at the annual convention of the American Association of School Administrators in Cleveland. All this oratory proved too much even for the superintendents. By week's end they had found something more amusing to talk about: a little book called The Saber-Tooth Curriculum-which, discovered on display in the exhibitors' hall, wowed the convention...
...Saber-Tooth Curriculum, a satire on educators, consists of a series of lectures on the history of paleolithic education, delivered by a fictitious Professor J. Abner Peddiwell while he drinks tequila daisies at a Tijuana bar. Professor Peddiwell reports that the three fundamentals taught to youngsters in this curriculum were: 1) fish - grabbing -with -the -bare -hands, 2) horse-clubbing, 3) saber-tooth-tiger-scaring-with-fire (see cut). When fish became too agile to catch with the bare hands and horses and tigers disappeared, schools nevertheless went on teaching the old fundamentals for their cultural value. Eventually progressives, insisting...
Continuing its winning ways the fencing team decisively defeated the St. John's swordsmen Saturday, the score being 17-10. After losing the foils 5-4 with Cranston Jones taking two of his three matches to lead the Harvard foil-men, decisive victories were scored in both epee and saber...